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How to Live 

One Hundred 
Years 

—and Then Some 

By 

EDWARD B. WARMAN, A. M. 

Los Angeles, Cal. 



PUBLISHED by 


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Contents 

Alphabet of Health. 6 

One Hundred Years. 9 

What is the Maximum of Middle Life? 11 

The Span of Life. 13 

How to Reach the 100-Mile Post.18 

Growing Old.23 

Correct Position . 26 

Special Exercises.26 

Eat to Live.27 

Bathe Daily.28 

Drink Plentifully. 30 

Breathe Deeply.33 

Underwear.35 

Sleep .35 

Color . 37 

Insulation . 38 

The Four Chimneys.40 

Fasting .41 

Gray Hair.42 

Longevity . 42 

An Old (?) Man.44 

Would You Live to a Ripe Old Age?.. 46 






















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The Land of Long Life.49 

Some California Centenarians.52 

IWhere Do People Live the Longest ?.. 56 
Some Remarkable Cases of Longevity, 61 
Noted Men Who Produced Their Great¬ 
est Works After Passing Fiftieth 

Year .81 

He Practices What He Preaches.84 

How to Keep Well. 87 







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Introductory 

To those who desire to reach the century 
mark I purpose giving, in the following 
pages, some helpful and healthful sugges¬ 
tions, and in the way of added encourage¬ 
ment I shall cite a score or more of cases 
wherein both men and women have passed 
the hundred mile post—and then some. 

The author is aiming in that direction, 
and trusts that his success on reaching the 
goal may not be a parallel case to that of 
the man who, writing a book entitled, 
“How to be Happy Without Money,” got 
stuck on the fourth chapter and has now 
abandoned the work entirely. 

The reader of this little manual, I trust, 
may not meet the fate of the man regard¬ 
ing whom it was asked, “What was the 
cause of his death?” To this query the 
answer was: “He bought two books on 
‘How to Live 100 Years/ and he tried to 
work both systems at once.” 

Vigorously yours, 

EDWARD B. WARMAN. 


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Warman’s Alphabet of Health 

Aim high—mentally, morally, physically. 

Breathe deeply. Bathe daily. 

Cut loose from everything detrimental. 

Drink several glasses of cold water daily. 

Exercise judiciously, systematically, regu¬ 
larly every day. 

Fear nothing. 

Get fresh air day and night; better be 
carried off by a burglar than by an un¬ 
dertaker. 

Heed Nature's slightest warning; heed it 
at once. 

Indulge in sun baths; better have the sun 
paint your face red than to have the 
liver paint it yellow. 

Judiciously guard all outgo, especially 
nervous expenditure. 

Keep your mouth closed when breathing— 
also when angry. 

Laugh at misfortunes—your own, not 
others'. 

Masticate your food until it near-liquefies. 

Never neglect the care of your teeth. 


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Over-exertion in any line should be 
avoided. 

Persistently keep a correct position of the 
body—standing, sitting, walking. 

Quit worrying if you wish a long life. 

Realize that all life is sacred; all days are 
holy. 

Sleep eight hours when possible. 

Take a daily air bath—if only for five min¬ 
utes. 

Use every talent that God has given you. 

Violated laws of Nature must be paid in 
full. 

Waste no time in denying the evidences of 
the senses. 

X-pect what you desire. 

Your mental attitude to-day determines 
your success to-morrow. 

Zealous be in every cause; but not over- 
zealous. 


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A Birthday 

“I keep no reckoning of the years 
As they pass by; 

Life’s seasons, with their smiles and tears, 
Unnumbered fly; 

So whether twenty be the score— 

Or twenties two—or three—or four— 

Still young am I.” 


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One Hundred Years—And Then 
Some 

Roughly speaking, the average length of 
a man’s life is about thirty-three years. 
One quarter of the billion and a half people 
on the globe die before the age of six; one 
half before the age of sixteen, and only 
about one person in each one hundred lives 
to the age of sixty-five. But, in spite of 
the tremendous chances against the great 
human family, now and then one rises 
above the age of a centenarian, and, some¬ 
times, passes into several decades of a 
second century. 

It is not length of days or the matter of 
years that we should strive for, but to be¬ 
come “healthfully old”; in fact, such a ripe, 
vigorous and prolific age as may be seen in 
some fine old oak or elm which, having 
reached its maximum, retains it with 
scarcely a foreshadowing of decline for 
many scores of years. No, not length of 
days, merely, but immortal youth—an in- 


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definite prolongation of that period known 
as “middle life.” 

Here is this Western country we have 
what is known as a mesa—a flattened hill¬ 
top which becomes a wide-stretching 
plateau. The mesa in life’s pilgrimage 
should be reached about the maximum of 
“middle life,” and there we should remain 
for several decades, giving not the least 
sign of the advance of years. 


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What is the Maximum of 
Middle Life ? 

I should say that the maximum of 
“middle-life”—of one in a normally health¬ 
ful condition—is reached at about the age 
of seventy; just at the time when the ma¬ 
jority of persons think that the sands of 
life have run their course. 

This erroneous idea prevails as a misin¬ 
terpretation of the scripture reference to 
“three-score and ten.” Error, having once 
prevailed, dies hard. This error has be¬ 
come so thoroughly a racial belief that it is 
not uncommon for the minister, in his 
funeral sermon, to speak of the deceased as 
having lived on “borrowed time” if he has 
passed the supposed “limit” of three score 
and ten. 

This belief, somewhat fatalistic, is akin 
to that of the Parsees (the adherents of the 
Zoriastrian, or ancient Persian religion) 
who hold that a man has a certain number 
of breaths allotted to him, nor can he draw 


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another after this allotment has been ex¬ 
hausted. 

I very much prefer the sentiment ex¬ 
pressed by the late Oliver Wendell Holmes 
in the following lines: 

“At sixty-two life has begun. 

At seventy-three begins once more; 

Fly swifter as thou near’st the sun, 

And brighter shine at eighty-four. 

At ninety-five 
Should’st thou arrive, 

Still wait on God and'work and thrive.” 

When you think of Auber composing his 
best operas at eighty-nine, and Manuel 
Garcia still an instructor of vocal culture at 
one hundred, and Whittier singing immor¬ 
tal songs at eighty-five, you are in contact 
with men who have lived and who knew 
“what it all amounts to.” 


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The Span of Life 

The natural term of man's life, arguing 
from the logic and evidence of comparative 
zoology, is one hundred and forty years— 
and even this is not the limit. All animals 
in their natural state should, and usually 
do, live to an age equivalent to five times 
their period of growth. In this respect 
man is no exception. Scientists, as a rule, 
agree that man’s growth does not cease at 
twenty, as is usually supposed, but at twen¬ 
ty-eight ; hence the one hundred and forty 
years. 

People live longer nowadays than they 
have in any other period of the world’s 
history—Methuselah not excepted. The 
ages of those early characters were com¬ 
puted in lunar, not in solar years. 

Age is, to a great extent, a matter of be¬ 
lief. You are as young or as old as you 
believe you are. The spirit of youth should 
be retained; for, by so doing, we pay little 
heed to the passing of the years. This 
method of reckoning years reminds me of 


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the “darkey” who, when asked his age, 
replied—“Rightfully speakin’, I’se only 
’bout forty-nine, but ef you count de yeahs 
by de fun Fse had, I reckon I mus’ be most 
a hundred.” 

Life is a promissory note due one day 
after date, payable on demand, but by right 
living we can defer payment almost indefi¬ 
nitely. 

I do not believe that anyone wishes to 
live forever—in the body; in fact, we begin 
to die as soon as we are born, and the end 
is linked to the beginning. But that is no 
reason why we should court death instead 
of life. 

Eminent scienists tell us that^* 


The life of the bones is 
The life of the lungs is 
The life of the skin is 
The life of the liver is 
The life of the kidneys is 
The life of the heart is 


5,000 years. 
1,500 years. 
900 years. 
400 years. 
300 years. 
300 years. 


If 300 years is the life of the heart, then 
one could not have the heart to live after 
that. 


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The Hindus, in the development of the 
physical man, claim for him not only 
longevity but immunity from disease. 
They say of him—“He is determined not 
to fall sick—and he never does. He lives 
long—a hundred years is nothing to him; 
he is quite young and fresh when he is one 
hundred and fifty.” 

When one arrives at that milepost (150) 
in the condition named, there is no need 
and there should be no desire to quit, even 
then; however, we are not all so fortunate. 
It is the “staying power” that tells. There 
are certain physical qualities which have 
great weight in determining the struggle 
against a conspiring environment. An oak 
has one configuration and a cedar pine or 
a mullein stalk quite another. Every per¬ 
son carries about with him the physical in¬ 
dications of his longevity. “A long-lived 
person,” says the Medical Record, “may 
be distinguished from a short-lived person 
at sight. In the vegetable as well as in the 
animal kingdom each life takes its charac¬ 
teristics from the life from which it sprang. 
Among these inherited characteristics we 


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find the capacity for continuing its life for 
a given length of time. This capacity for 
living we call the inherent or potential 
longevity. Under favorable conditions and 
environments the individual should live out 
the potential longevity. With unfavorable 
conditions this longevity may be greatly 
decreased, but with a favorable environ¬ 
ment the longevity of the person, the fam¬ 
ily or the race may be increased. Thus 
we have the two leading considerations 
always present and always interdependent 
—the inherited potentiality and the re¬ 
actionary influences of environment. 

“The primary conditions of longevity 
are, that the heart, lungs and digestive or¬ 
gans should be large. If these organs are 
large the trunk will be long, and the limbs 
comparatively short. The person will ap¬ 
pear tall in sitting and short in standing. 
The hand will have a long and somewhat 
heavy palm and short fingers. 

“These are general points in distinction 
from those of short-lived tendencies but, 
of course, subject to the usual individual 
exceptions. The characteristics noted, 


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however, are expressions of inherent po¬ 
tentiality which have been proven on the 
basis of abundant statistical evidence. In 
the case of persons who have short-lived 
parentage on one side and long-lived on the 
other, the question becomes more involved. 
It is shown that in grafting and hybridiz¬ 
ing nature makes a supreme effort to pass 
the period of the shorter longevity and 
extend the life to the greater longevity. 
It has been observed that the children of 
long-lived parents mature much later and 
are usually backward in their studies.” 

Right here, a word to mothers. Do not 
force the mental development of the child 
but cultivate the physical as a foundation 
upon which to build a more beautiful and 
lasting structure. As a rule a precocious 
child is short-lived. It takes a hundred 
years for an oak to develop; a cabbage- 
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How to Reach the Hundred 
Mile Post 

If you sit down to think “How swift the 
shuttle flies that weaves thy shroud/’ you 
will surely lose the race and fall by the 
wayside. 

If you depend upon drugs or patent med¬ 
icines to pull you through you will find 
yourself in the same predicament as the 
man who got to heaven ahead of time. He 
was met at the gate by St. Peter who asked 
him his name. St. Peter turned page after 
page of the record without finding it. At 
last, however, he came upon it. 

“Why, man!” he exclaimed, “you are 
booked for 1920. What doctor did you 
have?” 

Hygiene necessarily plays an important 
part in this matter of longevity, but aston¬ 
ishing exceptions are noted among cente¬ 
narians who disregard it. For instance, 
one man who died at the age of 110 was 
drunk every night of his adult life; one 
Irish landholder who lived to be 120, or- 


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dered inscribed upon his tombstone that 
he was always drunk and when in that 
state was so terrible that death itself 
feared him. 

Alcohol is not the only poison abused, 
however, with life prolonging itself in spite 
of it. One man who, in 1896, received a 
prize as centenarian, was an inveterate 
smoker until his death at the age of 102. 

In 1897, a Finisterre woman who had 
smoked a pipe since her youth, died at the 
age of 104. 

One Chereof, a Savoyard, lived more on 
coffee than anything else, drinking forty 
cups a day. He died at the early age of 
114. 

These cases are not cited as criterions 
for the youth of our land to emulate but as 
examples to be avoided. With the great 
majority of those who have passed the cen¬ 
tury mark, sobriety has been the rule; 
inebriety, the exception. It is safe to say 
that, as a rule, “the excesses of our youth 
are draughts upon our old age payable, 
with interest, about thirty years after 
date.” 


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Some time, somewhere, somehow we 
must pay the penalty of every violation of 
Nature’s laws. Remember, we are never 
punished for our physical sins but by them. 
If you sow wild oats you will reap such a 
harvest. If you sow to sin it will be useless 
to ask God to change the crop. 

Physical education as distinguished from 
physical training is a strong factor in the 
prolongation of life. It aims to develop 
health and general efficiency rather than 
mere muscular strength; and is made to 
benefit the weak as well as the strong. It 
burns up the fat man’s surplus tissue, and 
stimulates nutrition in the lean man. 

Vitality is to the human being what 
horse-power is to an engine. Ascertain 
how many horse-power you are and then 
stop short of the limit. 

Longevity depends upon the nerves; the 
nerves upon the condition and position of 
the spine; therefore a straight spine and a 
long life. 

An Italian scientist, after years of exper¬ 
imentation, tells the world that “if a per¬ 
son sleeps thirty-six consecutive hours a 


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week; that is, goes to bed Saturday even¬ 
ing and arises Monday morning, having 
slept the whole time, he will store up an 
enormous amount of energy, and prolong 
his life fifty per cent.” He maintains that 
“whereas rest procures only physical en¬ 
ergy, sleep rests the brain as well as the 
body. Sleep is the greatest medicine and 
tonic in the world.” 

I would add to the foregoing the fact 
that we may also renew our youth and our 
faith in life by finding rest in recreation, 
but we should avoid any form of recreation 
that leaves us poorer mentally or spirit¬ 
ually, or injures anyone else, or absorbs too 
much of our time and energy. 

Apropos to this thought, I quote from a 
speech of ex-President Taft's delivered at 
Benton Harbor, Mich.: 

“In my father's time he thought, though 
a hard-working lawyer, that two weeks' 
vacation was ample time during the year, 
and when I came to the bar he suggested 
that if I stayed at home in the summer 
months, I would make a good deal more 
money than if I went away. 


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“But the American people have found 
that there is such a thing as exhausting the 
capital of one’s health and constitution and 
that two or three months’ vacation, after 
the hard and nervous strain to which one 
is subjected in the autumn and spring, is 
necessary. 

“Mr Justice Strong of the Supreme 
Bench, who lived to be 88 or 89, told me 
it was a part of his life to take sixty days 
each year out in the woods away from the 
people, exercising and living in the open 
air, and to that he attributed his long life.” 


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Growing Old 

By “Uncle Walt Mason” of Emporia, Kans. 

Your eyes may fail and your limbs grow weak, 

And the blood in your veins run cold; 

Deep lines may furrow your sunken cheek, 

And your heart, that was strong and bold, 

May do its work with a feeble beat; 

The road may weary your stumbling feet; 

You may sigh for friends that you’ll no more meet— 

But that isn’t growing old. 

The years may number four score or more, 

That over your head have rolled; 

You may hear the wash on the other shore 
Of the waves that are dark and cold; 

While your brain is keen and your soul is strong, 

And your heart is full of a hopeful song, 

You are still one of the youthful throng, 

And years will not make you old. 

When your voice is harsh and your words are mean, 

As you sit by the fire and scold, 

And your mind is fat and your heart is lean, 

And your thoughts are blue with mold; 

When you bring to the breasts of the children fears, 
And bring to the eyes of the women tears, 

It is not needful to count your years— 

We know you are growing old. 

You should remain ever young while 
“growing old”; in fact, no one grows old; 
he merely becomes old who ceases to grow. 


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To be eternally youthful one must be eter¬ 
nally finding the new. “The soul of man* 
does not age with years.” 

When you say to yourself, day after day, 
that you are growing old, you sow age- 
producing seeds in the subjective mind 
(the soul mind). In consequence of this 
you will reap old-age conditions more and 
more in every part of your system. There¬ 
fore, instead of saying “the older I get,” 
say “the longer I live.” 

It is well to remember that “To every 
man you meet in this journey of life you 
owe a loyal consideration.” Every thought 
and every act is reflex. “When you find 
a man that is down, give him a boost, the 
exercise will do you good.” These are the 
little things that keep the heart young 
while you are passing the milestones. Say 
to yourself—“I pass through this world 
but once. Any good, therefore, that I can 
do, or any kindness that I can show to any 
human being, let me do it now. Let me 
not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass 
this way again.” 

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tenarian. You’ll never “get there” if you 
do. If you worry you are positively lack¬ 
ing in faith. Worry and faith are not good 
bedfellows. “It ain’t no use,” says Mrs. 
Wiggs, “puttin’ up your umbrellar till it 
rains.” 

Accept the wise counsel of the Business 
Philosopher as expressed in the following 
lines:— 

Don’t fret when the world isn't smiling. 

But roll up your sleeves and say: 

I don’t give a rap what Fate has on tap, 

Things have just got to come my way. 

And you’ll find when you enter the battle, 

Folks always salaam to the strong. 

It’s the fellow who sings, as he sails into things, 
That the world helps along. 

So brace up and face the music, 

Get harmony out of the din— 

You can if you will, but not standing still; 

Get busy, and go in to win. 

If you wish to reach the goal and be an 
example for others to emulate you should 
drive from your heart all envy, all hatred, 
all jealousy, all enmity, and in their place 
substitute love, charity, forgiveness. 
Hatred takes time and energy and health, 
and the dividends on the investment are 


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pitifully small and unsatisfactory. Con¬ 
demnatory thoughts poison and devitalize; 
commendatory thoughts purify and vital¬ 
ize. 

The foregoing are some of the mental 
and spiritual requirements conducive to 
the prevention of old-age conditions while 
making for the hundred-milepost—and 
then some. 

Let us now look, briefly, at some of the 
most essential physical needs:— 

First. Correct position of the body when 
standing and sitting, and correct carriage 
of the body when walking. Keep an active 
chest. When the chest is down (passive) 
you are negative; hence easily influenced. 
When the chest is up (active) you are pos¬ 
itive and alert. In other words always 
keep the back of your neck against your 
collar. 

Second. Special exercise conducive to 
longevity. As the waist muscles are the 
first to give way in old age, in consequence 
of non-use, thus causing the body to be¬ 
come either bent or rigid, I would especial¬ 
ly recommend my three pet exercises— 


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bowing, side bending, and liver squeezer— 
as given in my “Twenty-Minute Exer¬ 
cises.” These are of such a nature that 
they may be taken daily, with advantage, 
until long after the hundred-milepost has 
been passed. All physical exercises are 
the more effective in proportion to the 
pleasure derived therefrom; a man’s health 
is not much benefited by walking the floor 
all night with the baby. 

Third. Eat to Live; not live to eat. As 
a rule, eat but two meals a day—prefer¬ 
ably a light, easily digested breakfast; no 
luncheon, a hearty six-o’clock dinner. 

Masticate your food thoroughly but not 
excessively—as by Fletcherizing; nor by 
counting—as by Gladstone, but get the 
habit of mixing all solids and liquids with 
the saliva before swallowing, and then re¬ 
ducing all solids to a creamy consistency. 

Be cheerful at your meals. A sour coun¬ 
tenance will give you a sour stomach. Fear 
nothing that you eat. If you fear it, do 
not eat it; if you eat it, do not fear it. Do 
not pain your stomach for an hour just to 
tickle your palate for a minute. 


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No one rule of diet can be prescribed 
with equal effect for everyone. We should 
each of us be a law unto ourselves provided 
we understand the law. Whether your 
foods comes from the animal or from the 
vegetable kingdom, or both, one rule holds 
good,—the body requires the three essen¬ 
tial elements: viz.: the proteids (flesh 
formers); the fats (heat foods); the car¬ 
bohydrates (the work foods). 

Choose wisely, according to your needs, 
but remember that no man can have health 
who eats too much; no man can have 
health who eats too often; no man can 
have health who eats too many kinds of 
foods at one meal; no man can have health 
who eats while hurried, anxious or excited; 
no man can have health who rises late in 
the morning, gulps down a hearty break¬ 
fast and then sprints for the car. 

Fourth. Bathe daily. Because I take a 
cold water bath not fewer than 365 days a 
year is no reason why you should. If you 
have not sufficient vitality for a strong re¬ 
action you have not vitality enough to war¬ 
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are you to know? By this: If you are 
chilly when leaving the bath and are 
obliged to exercise or to take a brisk rub- 
down in order to get warm; if your body 
is not all aglow, then you would better 
take a warm or tepid bath, instead, and 
finish with a dash of cold water. 

Almost anyone of any age can take a 
cold-water tub-bath by running in warm 
water, ankle deep, before entering the 
bath, then, as you step into the bath tub, 
run in the cold water, and as it comes from 
the faucet, bathe face, head, arms, neck, 
chest, abdomen, legs (the feet being warm 
will prevent your chilling); then, as the 
water in the tub becomes less warm, sit in 
the tub and throw the water over chest, 
shoulders and back; then lie down in the 
tub (during all this time the cold water 
is running in) then sit, stand, step out, but 
in so doing place one foot, for a moment, 
under the stream of cold water, then the 
same with the other foot. You should im¬ 
mediately feel the warmth in the feet as 
you step on the mat. Rub the body gently 
—not vigorously. Rub the body briskly 


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(using soap) when in the bath. This is a 
cleansing bath as distinguished from the 
mere tonic effect of the plunge. Do not 
dress immediately, but give the body an 
air or sun bath, or both, before dressing— 
and many years shall be added unto you. 

Do not delude yourself with the false 
belief that a cold-water bath will give you 
rheumatism—never; nor do wet feet or 
wet hands when sprinkling the lawn; nor 
does damp or rainy weather. No, these 
things only aggravate the condition that 
already exists. You got that rheumatism 
at the table. Honest. That’s where you 
got that cold and that catarrh and that 
hay-fever. If you do not overeat you can 
live in any climate in the world; can sit in 
a draught, go out in the rain, breathe the 
night air, smell the ragweed and look the 
microbe squarely in the face without fear. 

Fifth. Drink a plentiful supply of 
water. If you have passed what is usually 
termed “middle-age,” drink distilled water 
or, better still, buttermilk. 

Raw water is an aquarium. 

Boiled water is a graveyard. 


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Mineral water is rheumatism and pre¬ 
mature old age. 

Filtered water (clarified, but not puri¬ 
fied) is a gay deceiver. 

Distilled water is purity. 

In the observance of the foregoing rule 
regarding distilled water or buttermilk, 
you will be able to keep the veins and 
arteries supple and free-running, to pre¬ 
vent calcareous deposits in the joints, to 
prevent the stiffening and narrowing of 
the blood-vessels, and thus postpone the 
period of senile decay anywhere from ten 
to twenty years. 

Start your day by drinking two glasses 
of cold water—not hot. Hot water before 
breakfast will ruin the stomach. Hot 
water soothes but is enervating; cold 
water prods and is innervating. These 
stomach scalders lack a tenable basis of 
litigation. A young man was told by his 
family doctor to drink hot water an hour 
before breakfast. He said he did his best 
but couldn’t keep it up more than ten min¬ 
utes at a stretch. 

I would especially recommend the drink- 


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ing of coffee by those advanced in years; 
but it should be black coffee—that is, no 
cream, also no sugar if you are troubled 
with acidity of the stamach. The coffee 
should be strong. Weak coffee is a fer¬ 
ment, causing “sour stomach”; strong cof¬ 
fee is antiseptic. “Coffee made by percola¬ 
tion, and tea drawn with boiling water, if 
used temperately, are true foods,” says 
Dr. John D. Quackenbos. They retard tis¬ 
sue-waste, appease hunger, revive energy, 
and so neutralize the effects of wear and 
strain. But boiled coffee, and tea steeped 
by the hour are poisons. In so doing they 
contain not only the alkaloids caffeine and 
theine with nutritious vegetable albumens, 
but tannin and other secondary extracts 
which interfere with digestion and impede 
the general rapid interchange of tissue 
that constitutes health. 

It is excessive use or improperly pre¬ 
pared fusion that causes the palpitation, 
vertigo, insomnia, general nervousness, 
hysteria, disordered digestion, etc. These, 
however, are symptoms of tea and coffee 
poisining, not of tea and coffee drinking. 


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Then bear in mind that tea and coffee 
drinkers are not necessarily tea and coffee 
drunkards. 

A cup of black coffee after dinner pre¬ 
vents unnatural fermentations and allows 
digestion to proceed. Weak coffee fre¬ 
quently upsets the digestion of the entire 
meal. 

Sixth. Breathe deeply. When God 
made man the finishing touch was the 
“breath of life.” When man shuffles off 
this mortal coil, the last thing he gives 
up—reluctantly, too—is breath, hence 
breathing is paramount. 

Instead of taking so-called “breathing 
exercises”—forced breathing—get out and 
walk briskly, so briskly as to compel deep 
breathing—increased breathing. Forced 
breathing defeats the very object one 
should wish to attain; for without in¬ 
creased circulation of the blood, the over¬ 
distended air-cells occlude the blood-ves¬ 
sels and force the blood back so that the 
oxygen cannot reach it and the imprisoned 
gas cannot escape. This causes the dizzi¬ 
ness which results from forced respiration. 


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The desired end is obtained when both the 
air and the blood circulate freely in the 
lungs. 

Keep the mouth closed. Always breathe 
through the nostrils. Throughout the 
animal creation, from the mouse, which 
breathes one hundred and fifty times a 
minute, to the elephant, which breathes 
only six time a minute, one rule holds good 
—the larger and stronger the animal the 
more slowly and deeply it breathes. 

All breathing should be diaphragmatic, 
not clavicular. Deep, full breathing of 
pure moving air is the best tonic and 
blood-purifier in the world, costing nothing 
but effort—pleasurable effort. 

Get out into God’s glorious sunlight, 
shake off the fetters of disease, stand and 
walk with your head up in the air (upright 
physically as well as morally), throw out 
your chest, give ample room to all your 
vital organs; then breathe, breathe, 
breathe, and if you do not then breathe a 
prayer of thankfulness to the “Source of 
All Good,” you are neither fit to live nor 
fit to die. 


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Seventh. Underwear. Just a word. If 
you wish to live long “in the land which 
the Lord thy God hath given thee/’ dis¬ 
card woolen underwear, no matter in 
what part of the world you live. Woolen 
underwear and cleanliness are not com¬ 
patible. When woolen is worn next to the 
skin it causes the skin to become tender 
and sensitive—even to supersensitiveness, 
thus making the wearer more subject to 
atmospheric changes. When the human 
cuticle is subjected to a surplus of mois¬ 
ture it loses its vitality and its normal 
functions, and diseases result. All under¬ 
clothing should permit of free transpira¬ 
tion from the skin; this, the wool will not 
do. The woolen underwear theory is fast 
dying out—so are those who wear it* A 
false theory may be adopted and followed 
and even obtain for years, yet the theory 
may be wholly at variance with facts. 
Meshed linen is the ideal underwear for 
any climate. 

Eighth. Sleep. The longer you live the 
more sleep you should take if you wish to 
live longer. It is necessary to recuperate 


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the forces. We are inclined to poke fun 
at the “old folks” who “go to bed with the 
chickens,” but they may live to turn the 
tables on us. The first sleep is soundest. 
After that the intensity of sleep slowly 
diminishes. Temperature and vitality are 
lowest about two o’clock A.M.; so that 
two hours’ sleep before midnight are 
worth four hours afterward. 

Always have the feet warm when you 
retire, as slumber commences at the ex¬ 
tremities. Court sleep by “letting go”— 
mentally and physically. Don’t try to hold 
the bed up, but let it hold you up. Put all 
your cares on the chair with your clothing. 
Shut your peepers. Shut your mouth. 
Lock up your think-box, put the key un¬ 
der your pillow and do not touch it until 
morning. There is an old health-maxim 
which says: 

Eat when hungry; 

Drink when thirsty; 

Lie straight in bed. 

Methinks there is much efficacy in re¬ 
gard to the correct position. Do not lie 


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on your back when going to sleep. By 
so doing the circulation is impeded, owing 
to the weight of the viscera on the great 
aorta artery. Observe this caution if you 
have heart, stomach, liver, intestinal, 
uterus or bladder trouble. ’Twere better 
to lie on your liver; then just a little 
further over will bring you almost face 
downward—a sure cure for snoring. 

“Laugh and the world laughs with you,” 

Snore and you sleep alone. 

Ninth. Color. I especially refer to the 
color of clothing in its effect on the human 
body when exposed to the rays of the sun. 
To understand and properly apply this 
beneficent agent is a great factor in mak¬ 
ing for longevity. 

Black clothing, black hats, black shoes 
should, as a rule, be discarded for summer 
wear. It is an indisputable fact that black 
transmits the heat but absorbs the light; 
white, on the contrary, reflects the heat 
but transmits the light. It is the light of 
the solar rays that the human body needs. 
Danger and destruction lurk in the intense 
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there is health and prolongation of life. 
Every ray of light bears three forms of 
energy—heat, light and chemical action; 
each of these can be separated from the 
two others. 

Just a word of caution also in regard 
to the tinting of your rooms and the color 
of the lamp-shades; each color has its ef¬ 
fect upon the mind, reaching and affecting 
the brain through the nerves of the eye. 
Excess of purple brings on melancholia 
and suicidal mania; excess of scarlet, homi¬ 
cidal mania; excess of yellow, chronic hys¬ 
teria; excess of white destroys the optic 
nerve and the sight goes out like a candle; 
excess of blue excites the imagination and 
wrecks the nerves by reaction; green is 
the king of colors and no amount of it 
can do you harm. Avoid all excesses. 

Tenth. Insulation. The proper insula¬ 
tion of the body is one of the secrets of 
never “growing old.” It is one thing to 
generate force, quite another to conser- 
vate it. 

What is this force? Science says, “That 
which we call vitality, or life, is, in its 
physical sense, electricity. ,, 


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How do we generate it? Science says, 
“It is taken into the system from the air 
and the sunshine, and is generated in the 
digestive organs by the chemical action 
of food and drink.” 

Why should we conservate it? Science 
says, “All electrified bodies tend to part 
with their magnetism to the earth; the 
human body being no exception.” 

How can we conservate it? By the 
proper insulation of the body. 

What is the proper insulation? The 
placing of a non-conducting substance be¬ 
tween the soles of the feet and the earth. 
The feet, through their network of nerves, 
are always communicating with the earth, 
even indoors, when one is active. 

How is this done? By the wearing of 
silk hose or rubber-soled shoes or shoes 
with inner soles (not insoles) of rubber-— 
or ground rubber and cork. This sub¬ 
stance is placed in some makes of shoe 
when the shoe is made. 

A wayfaring man, though a fool, can 
readily see what a storage battery of hu¬ 
man electricity we may be when we con- 


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form to the law by utilizing the forces 
without, by transforming them to force 
within, and then husbanding those forces 
by insulation. 

The four chimneys. I refer to the four 
eliminating, or depurating agents—the 
lungs, kidneys, bowels, skin. These should 
be active—normally active (not made so 
by the vicious habit of drugging) if you 
wish to have health and long life. When 
the organs of a man’s body refuse, from 
any cause, to do their work, nature did 
not intend that he should force them to 
action with drugs, but that he should re¬ 
store them to normal condition by right 
living and by strength obtained from 
proper foods. 

It is not enough that you should reach 
the hundred-milepost, but you should 
reach it in good condition. You should 
begin your second century much stronger 
than you began the first one. 

Then keep the lungs active by deep, full 
breathing of good, pure air; the kidneys, 
by sufficient water drinking and eating of 
fruit and vetgetables; the bowels, by 


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drinking a sufficient amount of water to 
aid the liver in the production of sufficient 
bile—the natural purgative of the body; 
the skin, by a plentiful supply of water 
outside (daily bathing) and inside (drink- 
ing). 

The Rev. Lyman Beecher, in a parting 
word to a graduating class of a theological 
seminary, said: “Trust in God and keep 
your bowels open.” 

The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher said: 
“A man with a bad liver can’t be a good 
Christian.” 

It will readily be seen that both of these 
noted divines fully realized the value of 
physical health. 

Fasting, as an aid to longevity. There 
is no doubt of the efficacy of an occasional 
fast, which is no more nor less than a gen¬ 
eral house-cleaning and a laying off for 
repairs. 

Dr. Thomas J. Allen, an able authority 
on this subject, says: “Not everybody 
should fast. It should have the same com¬ 
petent direction as any other treatment. 
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everybody to experiment upon himself. 
Health is too valuable. It is not neces¬ 
sary to find out twice, by the same experi¬ 
ment, whether or not a gun is loaded.” 

Gray hair and “old age.” Gray hair is 
a proper accompaniment for one approach¬ 
ing what is usually termed “old age.” The 
“good book” tells us that “gray hair is a 
crown of glory.” So don’t worry about 
it; don’t try to improve upon nature. This 
phase of the subject is very ably handled 
by Miss Sydney Ford in the Los Angeles 
Times of recent date: “Is your hair gray 
or turning gray? It is one of the wisest 
provisions of nature that, as the features 
lose their youthfulness and the face shows 
sharp outlines, the hair keeps pace, as it 
were, with changed conditions and, as it 
turns gray, softens the facial outlines and 
form a frame that fits the face.” 

Longevity. Dr. W. R. C. Latson, the 
well-known editor of Health Culture, says: 
“Reduce to the lowest terms the conditions 
of long life are two—a clean body and a 
calm mind. To gain the former, one must 
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pure water, and see to it that the poison- 
removing organs—skin, lungs, bowels and 
kidneys—perform their full duty. 

“Calmness of mind is essential because 
all excitement, particularly unpleasant ex¬ 
citement—anxiety, worry, anger, and so on 
—all such states reach the vital organs, 
disturbing their action, thus depleting 
vitality and curtailing the life span.” 



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An “Old” (?) Man 

In the news columns of an esteemed con¬ 
temporary yesterday a man of 60 was per¬ 
sistently and with malice prepense called 
“old man.’’ In a neighboring column a 
person of “over 65” was described as 
“aged.” It may be said that these are the 
insolences of juvenile reporters, who are 
to be pardoned since youth is a condition 
which will not endure. Are these mis- 
judgments not rather instances, and there¬ 
fore to be mentioned in reproof of error, 
of a lingering ancient misconception of the 
proper limit of old age? 

I f c he spirited days of the race, to the 
end of the Middle Ages and long beyond, 
what with hard fighting, harder drinking, 
incredible insanitation, a medical practice 
often as wise as that of darkest witch¬ 
craft-ridden Africa, it was difficult to live; 
and men were regarded as old who in this 
improved time would be called mere boys. 
In these happier days the metes and 
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ful and golf-enlivened age, must be set and 
have been set much further forward. No¬ 
body who cares to be either accurate or 
polite will call anybody under 100 “old.” 
A man of 60 or 65 is on the last stretch 
of youth or in the vestibule of middle age; 
no more. Infants in the twenties, children 
in the thirties, striplings in the forties, 
younglings in the fifties, please observe 
and preserve.—New York Sun. 


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Would You Live to Ripe 
Old Age? 

Woma you live to ripe old age? Or 
would you prefer the green variety? Prof. 
G. F. Butler, of Chicago, in a lecture gave 
these hints for attaining the first: 

After 40, eat less and eliminate more. 
Drink more pure water and keep the peris¬ 
taltic wave of prosperity constantly mov¬ 
ing down the alimentary canal. 

Many people suffer from too much busi¬ 
ness and not enough health. When such 
is the case they had better cut out busi¬ 
ness and society for a time, and come down 
to mush and milk and first principles. 

Don’t be foolish. Eat less and play 
more. Indulge in less fret and fume and 
more fruit and fun. 

There are people too indolent to be 
healthy; literally, too lazy to live. 

Work your brains and keep in touch 
with people. Do something for others and 
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There are some people who live as a 
cucumber in a garden. They cling to their 
own vine and serve no higher end than 
rotundity and relish. There are others 
who live as a summer breeze lives in a 
meadow; they find out all hidden flowers 
and set the perfumes flying. There are 
others who live as in a sea shell; their ex¬ 
istence is but a sigh. Others live as the 
fire in the diamond; they are all sparkle. 
There are others who live as the blind mole 
in the soil. They outnumber all the rest. 
They see nothing, feel nothing, know noth¬ 
ing to all eternity. 

There is nothing so insane and detri¬ 
mental to mind and health as the conversa¬ 
tion of people on their aches, and pains, 
and troubles. The froth of whipped eggs 
is a tonic compared to it. 

All our appetites are conditional. En¬ 
joyment depends upon the scarcity. 

A worker in any field, whose age is near 
either the shady or sunny side of SO, 
should consider himself in his prime, good 
for another half century of temperate, 
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Let grandma wear bright ribbons and 
gaudy gowns if the colors become her, 
and let grandpa be as dudish as he pleases 
with flashy neckties and cheerful garb. 
Both will be younger for it, and, besides, 
it is in harmony with nature. 

Gray hair is honorable; that which is 
dyed is an abomination before the Lord. 

Cultivate thankfulness and cheerfulness. 
An ounce of good cheer is worth a ton of 
melancholy. 


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The Land of Long Life 

Give a man a sound body and a sane 
mind and he will naturally desire to live 
to be as old as Methuselah. With a body 
that does not ache and a brain that does 
not bump the bumps he can overcome the 
human griefs that assail all mankind and 
look upon the everyday trials of life with 
a calm philosophy. 

California is the Land of Long Life. 
Men come here when old and they grow 
young again. It is here that the veterans 
of the Civil War flock the thickest and 
step the liveliest when the fife and drum 
corps call them to turn out for a parade. 
It is here that families that had stopped 
growing in former eastern homes start all 
over again. 

The condition that assures long life is 
that which has always at hand a way to 
make a man well when he becomes ill. 
Medicines and drugs are to be had every¬ 
where, but the best physicians now depend 
more on natural cures than on artificial 


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remedies for their patients. For pul¬ 
monary troubles the desert is recom¬ 
mended, for other diseases or physical af¬ 
flictions the mountains and the sea are 
prescribed. But almost everywhere ex¬ 
cept in California one or the other of these 
avenues of escape from suffering are out 
of reach of the average person. 

Here, however, in our land blessed of 
God in so many ways, all nature’s bless¬ 
ings are easily obtainable. California 
stretches.between the desert and the sea; 
the mountains are within easy call, cura¬ 
tive hot springs are everywhere, the cli¬ 
mate is such that the days and nights can 
be lived in the open. We are indeed so 
situated that when we are well we keep 
well because we live naturally. 

Steamers ply between Portland and San 
Pedro. Wherefore, if it be that the doctor 
advises a sea voyage for your health, you 
have but to go down to the sun-kissed port 
of San Pedro, board one of the comfort¬ 
able steamers, go with it up the golden 
coast of glory in the trail of Cabrillo, Vis- 
canio and Juan de Fuca to Portland and 


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back again—a sea journey of nearly 3,000 
miles. And when you have returned you 
may say that you have hardly been away 
from home. Yet you have your sea voy¬ 
age, just the same. 

A night journey from Los Angeles and 
you awake in the desert; an hour's journey 
by trolley and you are in the bosom of the 
Mother Mountains. In the Land of Long 
Life blessings are so near that you have 
but to reach out your hand and grasp 
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Some California Centenarians 

Capt. Edwin Bailey, born March 7 , 1810, 
at Sumersetshire, England, on the banks 
of the Avon. Although passed the 100th 
milestone, he had his own teeth, his intel¬ 
lect was good, hearing good, but eyesight 
poor. Yet he read a great deal, and was 
able to go around and over the grounds. 
Previously to an attack of erysipelas he 
was very vigorous, able to go where he 
pleased, and talked of a visit to Honolulu. 

William C. Reed was an inmate of the 
Home at Sawtelle, Cal., when he passed 
the 100th milestone. Mr. Reed was born 
January, 1810, at Vicksburg, Miss. His 
physical condition was very good at that 
age. He was active and his mind bright 
and clear. He went away on a furlough 
much of the time. 

Mrs. Lydia Heald Sharpless, of Whit¬ 
tier, Cal., celebrated her 100th birthday 
anniversary. About fifty of her descend¬ 
ants gathered in the park and gave a din- 


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ner in her honor. The large birthday cake 
bore one hundred candles. Her father was 
a civil engineer, lived to be 101 years old, 
and did some surveying after having 
passed the 100-milepost. Mrs. Sharpless 
walked up and down stairs alone, went to 
church every Sunday morning and, aside 
from the fact that her hearing was slightly 
impaired, she had all her faculties and per¬ 
fect health. 

Mrs. Elizabeth Gardner Foord, who has 
been a resident of this city (Los Angeles) 
since 1874, celebrated her 100th birthday 
anniversary. She was a fine example of 
the high type of character which has made 
New England the intellectual center of the 
country and the birthplace of the men and 
women who have largely laid the founda¬ 
tions of our western progressiveness and 
accomplishment. An accident had ren¬ 
dered Mrs. Foord an invalid for a number 
of years, and she was confined to her room 
and her chair, but still enjoyed the calls of 
friends, which would break the monotony 
of the day. She could read without 
glasses. 


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Mrs. Rebecca Buffum Spring, of Los 
Angeles, was born in Providence, R. I., 
June 8, 1811. Her intellect was keen, with 
a mind well stored not only with the pro¬ 
verbial old-age memories but the down-to- 
date events, as well; her sight and hearing 
remarkably good; her figure somewhat 
bent, but she moved about without assist¬ 
ance from individual or cane; her physical 
condition excellent, being wholly free 
from bodily pain. This, she said, was due 
to living the simple life, never missing her 
daily cold-water bath, and occasionally 
working in the garden. Mrs. Spring, while 
not a vegetarian, used good sense and 
sound judgment in her selection of 
foods. Her memory was remarkable; she 
repeated poetry learned after her ninetieth 
birthday. 

Madame C. M. S. Severance, of Los 
Angeles, was born in Canandaigua, New 
York, January 12, 1820. Although she has 
not completed her one-hundred-mile pil¬ 
grimage, she has accomplished so much 
more than the intellectual woman of her 
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among the centenarians. Madame Sever¬ 
ance is well and favorably known, and 
universally loved by all who have come in 
touch with her attractive personality. She 
is known far and wide as “The Mother of 
Clubs,” having been the founder and first 
president of the first woman’s club in this 
country — the New England Woman’s 
Club of Boston (1868). When you think 
of this tremendous mental and social force 
in the world of women having its rise, so 
to speak, in the mind and heart of Madame 
Severance, you can then form a somewhat 
fair mental picture of this noble woman. 

Capt. Diamond, of San Francisco, is un¬ 
doubtedly the oldest person in California. 
It was my pleasure to have been with him 
on his 107th birthday anniversary—that 
was some seven years ago—and he is still 
“alive and kicking.” By his walk and talk 
and general appearance he would impress 
one that he had just passed his three-score 
and ten; yes, passed it as all men should 
pass it — with youthful spirits and an 
active, vigorous, healthful mentality. 


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Where Do People Live the 
Longest? 

Figures do not lie—except in election 
returns. A German statistician has made 
a careful investigation quite recently to 
discover in which countries the greatest 
age is attained. 

The German Empire, with its 55,000,000 
population, has 78 persons who are more 
than 100 years old. 

France, with a population of fewer than 
40,000,000, has 213 who have passed the 
100-milepost. 

Spain, with about 18,000,000 population, 
has 410 who are over 100 years old. 

England has 146; Scotland 46; Sweden 
10; Belgium 5; Denmark 2; Switzerland 
> does not boast a single centenarian; while 
Norway, with its 2,300,000 inhabitants, 
has 23. 

The British Registrar General’s returns 
show that in 1891 there were twenty-one 
persons living in London of 100 years each. 

Haller, a famous statistician, collected 


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the figures on this subject for all England 
a few years ago and within its boundaries 
he found authentic records of 

1,000 persons who had lived from 100 to 
110 years. 

80 persons who had lived from 110 to 120 
years. 

29 persons who had lived from 120 to 130 
years. 

IS persons who had lived from 130 to 140 
years. 

6 persons who had lived from 140 to 150 
years. 

1 person who had actually celebrated the 
169th anniversary of his birth. 

Surely the foregoing record is encourag¬ 
ing to those of us who purpose passing the 
hundred-milepost with a hop, skip and a 
jump. 

Let us take a momentary glance at our 
own country. The census of 1890 disclosed 
the fact that nearly 4,000 persons were liv¬ 
ing in the United States each of whom 
was more than 100 years old. 

In Massachusetts alone, in the ten years 
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deaths of two hundred and three persons 
who had each lived more than 100 years. 
This is a very high average, being one cen¬ 
tenarian to every nineteen hundred inhabi¬ 
tants. 

Iowa reported five hundred persons liv¬ 
ing in the same year at ages above 90, and 
twenty-one persons who had passed the 
century mark. 

The most amazing figures, however, 
come from the Balkan peninsula, as fol¬ 
lows: 

Servia has 573 persons over 100 years 
old. 

Roumania has 1,084 persons over 100 
years old. 

Bulgaria has 3,883 persons over 100 
years old. 

Thus it will be seen that Bulgaria holds 
the international record for longevity, 
having a centenarian for every one hun¬ 
dred of its inhabitants. This unusual pro¬ 
portion is accounted for by the fact that 
these Bulgarian mountaineers are notable 
for their custom of consuming large quan¬ 
tities of sour milk. Scientists have con- 


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eluded that there is a logical connection 
between the two facts. 

Dr. Elie Metchnikoff, the famous Rus¬ 
sian author of the theory of Phagocytosis, 
has observed that the germ which is used 
to curdle the milk in Bulgaria is a larger 
and more powerful germ than our ordinary 
microbe of sour milk. This germ has the 
effect of stimulating other germs in the 
body which make for health and long life. 
The white corpuscles of the blood, or 
leucocytes—which Dr. Metchnikoff terms 
phagocytes (cells which devour) are noth¬ 
ing more or less than the defensive army 
of the corporeal system. 

Against cold, heat and famine the white 
corpuscles are powerless, but they inter¬ 
vene for the protection of the organism in 
the case of a wound or against the rav¬ 
ages of disease. They especially struggle 
against the microbes of putrefaction. 

Prof. Metchnikoff holds that through 
the use of this germ—Bulgaricus Bacillus 
—that we can arm the body, for a great 
length of time, against old age itself. He 
believes that man does not now live the 


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natural span of life, but that the score of 
years—say from 50 to 70—covering the 
period of “middle age” will, at no distant 
date, be extended three or four-score years 
more—thus bringing it to 140 or 150 years. 
b This germ—Bulgaricus Bacillus—is now 
being extensively introduced in this coun¬ 
try under the name of Yoghurt. A friend 
of mine, when under the care of Dr. Kel¬ 
logg of Battle Creek, Mich., was the first 
person in the United States for whom it 
was ordered. 

Thus we see the fallacy of counting 
three score and ten as the limit of life 
when, in fact, it is only the half-way house 
along the trail. 


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Some Remarkable Cases of 
Longevity. 

Interesting and Inspiring. 

“Old age” is the period where one finds 
a good many conflicting opinions, but the 
evidence appears to be in favor of regular 
exercise and plenty of it, especially if one 
has been active in early and middle life. 

A man in Holland was 70 years of age 
when he won a well-contested skating 
race. 

A man in France, when past 70 years of 
age, came in ninth in a 350-mile foot-race. 

Augustus Widder, of Montello, Mass., 
when 91 years of age took a daily walk of 
five or six miles, no matter what the 
weather would be. He said, “If young men 
would walk more and smoke fewer cigar¬ 
ettes there would be a less number of 
puny, weak men on our streets.” 

William O. Clark, of New York, at 93 
claimed to be the oldest member of the 


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G. A. R. and the only living veteran of the 
Black Hawk war. For his age he is robust 
and hearty and as straight as a ramrod. 
He walked from a town in Missouri to 
Brookfield, Conn., to receive money left to 
him by his mother. 

William Redmond, of Tuckahoe, N. Y., 
when 100 years of age took a walk of a 
mile and a half across the new Queensboro 
bridge, between Long Island City and 
Manhattan. 

Mrs. Hepea Cottle, wife of Frank Cot¬ 
tle, of San Francisco, died in New York 
City at the age of 101. She celebrated her 
100th birthday anniversary by taking her 
first automobile ride. She forthwith be¬ 
came an enthusiast, and a week later mo¬ 
tored to Boston and back. Born in Massa¬ 
chusetts, Mrs. Cottle went to California in 
1852 and remained until the earthquake in 
San Francisco, 1906. Her home being 
burned, she went to New York City and 
remained until her death. 

Francisco Jose, a native of Braga, al¬ 
though 118 years of age, was hale and 


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hearty. He carried on two trades—cob¬ 
bler and miller—and would go shooting in 
his leisure time. He never had the slight¬ 
est indisposition, his eyesight excellent, 
and his limbs as active as those of a man 
of thirty years of age. 

Joshua Zeitlein, of Brooklyn, N. Y., cele¬ 
brated his 105th birthday anniversary. He 
has one son 75 years old, and his youngest 
“boy” is 45 years old. 

John Kipp, of Washington, N. J., cele¬ 
brated his 103d birthday anniversary, still 
active in body and mind. He attributed his 
long life to the fact that he had eaten little 
meat, used tobacco and intoxicants spar¬ 
ingly, but has consumed a quantity of pep¬ 
permint candy at every meal from his 
early childhood. To this last item he lays 
special stress as to the cause of his lon¬ 
gevity. 

William M. Evarts, who died at about 
•90 years of age, claimed that he kept his 
health by never taking exercise. Had he 
taken regular and judicious exercise he 
might have passed the hundred-milepost. 


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Dr. Wm. Geo. Mead spent nearly all of 
his time in the open air, drank two or three 
quarts of water a day, occasionally played 
golf, and lived to look back over 148 years 
of more or less active life. Air and water 
are two of the great life-essentials. 

“Old DuBois,” as he was known, lived 
in Canada on the north shore of Lake Erie, 
the major part of 119 years. He never 
worked and never took exercise, but he 
spent seventy-five years of his life fishing 
with hook and line. (That would be called 
exercise by the majority of us.) He ate 
nothing but baked apples, milk, brown 
bread and unsalted butter. 

Mrs. Dinah E. Sprague, of Chicago, wel¬ 
comed her relatives and friends to her 
101st birthday reception. “My life has 
been a long one,” she said, “but I should 
like to live all the years over again. My 
recipe for long life is to live sensibly. I 
have always dressed warm in winter and 
cool in summer, despite the dictates of the 
fads. I was reared on a farm, always had 
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never used tea or coffee until late in life 
and then sparingly.” 

Senator Pettus, of Alabama, was stroll¬ 
ing along Pennsylvania Avenue one win¬ 
ter’s day when he saw an apparently old 
lady floundering about in the snow after 
having alighted from a street car. The 
senator gallantly escorted her to the side¬ 
walk, whereupon she thanked him and 
said: “I hope, sir, that when you are as 
old as I am, you will find those who are 
willing to assist you when in trouble.” 
“Thank you, madam,” said the senator, “I 
hope so, too. But how old are you, may 
I ask?” Came the tremulous reply: “Six¬ 
ty-four, sir.” The senator lifted his hat 
and said: “Ah! I am eighty-two.” 

This is a very good illustration of the 
fact that one is only as old as he feels. 

Mrs. Abraham Harpin, of Worcester, 
Mass., reached the age of 105 years in the 
possession of all of her faculties and, at 
times, aided her daughters in the house¬ 
hold duties. She had a splendid memory. 
Hard work, plain living, regular sleep, 


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early rising and true piety are the reasons 
to which she attributed her long life. 

Alexander Herriott, of Yonkers, N. Y., 
when 107 years old did not appear more 
than 75 or 80. At this age he appeared in 
court to ask the judge to prevent his 
daughter depriving him of the privilege of 
continuing to take care of his own prop¬ 
erty. In early life he was a sailor, and 
saw Napoleon during a visit to St. Helena. 

Mr. Henry Dorman, of Barton County, 
Missouri, lived well past the 100th mile^ 
stone. He was born in Steuben County, 
New York, January 10, 1799. When he 
was 100 years old he celebrated the event 
by slipping away from his friends and 
walking to the home of his son, a distance 
of twenty-five miles. He served in the 
Seventh Michigan Cavalry during the Civil 
War, although long past the age limit. At 
112 he was the oldest man on the pension 
list. By a special act of Congress he drew 
$50 a month for two years; previously to 
that time he received but $17 a month. 
At that ripe age he was sufficiently active 


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to be “out in the lot choring around.” On 
one occasion his rheumatism prevented 
him from going sixteen miles, to Pitts¬ 
burg, Kans., to see an airship. This, he 
said, caused him more sadness than any¬ 
thing in the past few years. “I suppose,” 
said he, “that my time will come soon, but 
I hope I can stay on my feet until the end 
comes. Age does not hurt; it is feebleness 
that makes existence a burden.” 

Mrs. Margaret Van Rensselaer, of Sara¬ 
toga, N. Y., celebrated her 102d birthday 
anniversary. Her father was 110 years 
old when he died, and her mother was 99 
years. Said Mrs. Van Rensselaer: “I 
never thought I could live so long. I was 
born in Montreal, Canada, and when a lit¬ 
tle girl I remember going barefooted over 
the snow-covered ground. I guess that’s 
what makes me so tough now.” 

Prof. Luther O. Emerson, of Hyde Park, 
Mass., who wrote the music to William 
Cullen Bryant’s “We Are Coming, Father 
Abraham,” in his 91st year declared that 
he expects to live at least thirty more 
years. 


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Richard Cooper, of Norfolk, Va., enjoyed 
health at the age of 110. His birth, in Nor¬ 
folk County, in October, 1800, has been 
clearly established. Up to 108 he worked 
regularly as an oysterman. 

A noted Rabbi of New York City, having 
been bereft of his third wife, and believ¬ 
ing “it is not good for man to be alone,” 
married his housekeeper—a mere slip of 
a girl, only 71 years young. The Rabbi 
was a youth of 106 years. 

Mrs. Elizabeth Wonderly, of Philadel¬ 
phia, passed the 107th milestone on her 
life’s journey. Her father, who was a 
soldier in the Revolution, lived to the age 
of 99, and her grandfather was 105 when 
he died. 

Mrs. Christian Fisher, of Steubenville, 
Ohio, was one of the most interesting char¬ 
acters living in Jefferson County. In 1897, 
although at that time 101 years of age, she 
became a registered voter and cast her 
first ballot for the election of a member 
of the Board of Education. At the colonial 
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May 6th, 7th and 8th, for the benefit of the 
Centennial celebration fund, Mrs. Fisher 
was present and aided in making the affair 
a success financially. 

Dr. John B. Rich, of New York City, 
died August 12th. Had he lived until next 
March he would have reached the 100th 
milestone. He was a remarkable man in 
many ways. He was known as the “Father 
of Dentistry/' having organized “The 
American Dental Association" in 1836; he 
conducted a gymnasium for women—the 
first in New York City; he was president 
of the Hundred-Year Club and also the 
Health Culture Club. The last years of 
his life were devoted to the teaching of 
physical culture and right living. He was 
so hale and hearty at ninety that he re¬ 
marked: “I haven't felt the approach of 
old age and I don't expect to for some 
years to come. Ninety is only the youth 
of old age." Even when death came there 
were none of the signs of senility, feeble¬ 
ness or decrepitude. 

William Boyd, of Stevenson, Md., 96 


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years of age, ambitious to become a cen¬ 
tenarian, and evidently believing that mar¬ 
ried folk live longer than single, was mar¬ 
ried September 11th to a Miss Eliza Daniel 
—a young lady of only 55 summers. Mr. 
Boyd, the youthful aspirant, took a train 
to Towson, where he procured, as he sup¬ 
posed, his marriage license. When he 
returned to his home he discovered that he 
had been given a gunner’s license. He was 
in a dilemma. He was ten miles from 
Towson, and the last train for the day had 
gone. Postpone the marriage? No, in¬ 
deed! “Faint heart ne’er won fair lady.” 
This young man of 96 walked the twenty 
miles to and from Towson, procured the 
little piece of paper—the like of which has 
caused more of happiness or misery than 
anything else in the world—and appeared 
to be none the worse for the tramp. May 
he live out the full hundred years and— 
then—some. 

Solomon Levy, of Brooklyn, N. Y., cele¬ 
brated his 108 years of active life by tum¬ 
bling thirty feet out of a window with no 
injury except—to his dignity. In the 


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midst of a peaceful sleep he walked out of 
his bedroom window, struck a ledge ten 
feet below, then rolled to the ground, an 
additional twenty feet. 

Mendel Diamond, of New York City, on 
his 109th birthday anniversary had a party 
in his honor. The remarkable part of the 
celebration was the fact that the aggre¬ 
gate ages of Mr. Diamond and his six in¬ 
vited guests was 721 years. Mr. Diamond 
escorted to the table Mrs. Esther Davis, 
who blushed at the mention of her 117 
summers. There were also present Malke 
Bernstein, 106 years old; Mrs. Rachel 
Marcus, 102; Mrs. Rose Arnwald, 107; 
Mischla Schalchetsky, 100; Isaac Gold¬ 
smith, the youth of the feast, only 80. The 
reception was given at the Home of the 
Daughters of Jacob, a retreat for aged 
Hebrews. Mr. Diamond told with great 
clearness and intensity of interest the 
story of how he, a lad of thirteen, saw 
Napoleon Bonaparte lead the remnant of 
his defeated army from the battlefield of 
Waterloo. These aged Hebrews are ap¬ 
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of the great law-giver of their nation. 
“And Moses was a hundred and twenty 
years old when he died; his eye was not 
dim, nor his natural forces abated. ,, 

Francisco Esper, of Florence, Colo., 110 
years of age, and Rafaela, his wife, 106 
years, traveled side by side for ninety 
years. Think of that for a record of 
wedded life. This aged pair were married 
in the ancient city of Santa Fe, N. M., in 
1820. They lived with their great-grand¬ 
daughter, who cared for them. Their only 
son died some years ago. Their physical 
condition was remarkably good at that 
age. 

Rev. Sedgwick W. Bidwell, of Middle- 
bury, Vt., on December 6, 1909, celebrated 
his 100th birthday anniversary by preach¬ 
ing to a crowded house. Of this occasion 
he speaks very enthusiastically: “My 
voice was strong and clear and I felt as 
vigorous as I did seventy-six years before 
when I preached my first sermon. During 
all these years I have been an active pub¬ 
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Vermont I have preached in ten towns and 
have, in these seventy-six years, held six 
different pastorates. I shall continue 
preaching until my dying day, and I ex¬ 
pect to live years to come.” This reverend 
centenarian is of the Methodist faith. 

Mrs. Ella Marks, of New York, cele¬ 
brated her 114th birthday anniversary. 
Her neighbors gave her a huge birthday 
cake on that auspicious occasion; a cake 
decorated with one hundred and fourteen 
stars. She could see very well and hear 
well. She and her husband came to New 
York from Poland about thirty years 
ago. He was a Rabbi, and she a “sham- 
atose” — one of those who prepare the 
dead for burial with the elaborate ritual 
of the pious Hebrews of New York’s 
Ghetto. 

Joseph Crele died at Caledonia, Wis., 
January 27, 1866, at the age of 141 years. 
He was born in Detroit, Mich., in 1725, 
and the record of his baptism is shown in 
the French Catholic church of that city. 
He was born when the town was a little 


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more than a trading-post on the frontier 
of the great Northwest, seven years be¬ 
fore the birth of George Washington, the 
Father of his Country—and died the year 
after Abraham Lincoln—the Savior of his 
Country—was assassinated. 

John Weeks, of New London, Conn., in 
1798, died after passing the 114th mile¬ 
stone. He married his tenth wife—a girl 
of sixteen, at the age of 106. Before he 
died his gray hair fell out and a crop of 
black hair appeared; also several new 
teeth. A few hours before his death he 
dined on three pounds of pork, two pounds 
of bread and a pint of wine. After that 
he was gathered unto his fathers. 

Nancy Butts Kennedy, of Augusta, 
Maine, died at the ripe age of 118 years. 

Noah Raby, of the Piscataway Poor 
Farm in New Jersey, claimed, just before 
his death (1902) that he was 129 years old. 
He attributed his long life to the fact that 
he had always lived in the open air. 

Mrs. L. E. Killcrease, of Pine Hills, 
Texas, in 1910, was the oldest woman in 


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the United States. She celebrated the 
134th anniversary of her birth the 16th of 
June. The old family Bible testifies to 
the fact that she was born in Salem, 
Mass., June 16, 1776. Her daughter was 
nearly 100 years old, and her granddaugh¬ 
ter nearly 80. 

Gabriel, the famous Mission Indian, was 
151 years old when he died in Salinas, Cal., 
in 1890. 

I shall next call your attention to a few 
of the “old-timers”—not of this country. 
Mr. Arthur B. Reeve, in “Scrap Book,” 
gives a few authenticated cases in Great 
Britain. It is said that one James Easton, 
in 1799, recorded the name, age, place of 
residence, and year of decease of one 
thousand, seven hundred and twelve per¬ 
sons in the modern era who were reputed 
to have attained the age of a century and 
more. His purpose was to discover how 
he, himself, might live to a good old age, 
but he was obliged to drop by the way 
when he had passed but one milestone 
beyond the proverbial three-store and ten. 


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I give, herewith, some of the many cases 
reported. 

William Farr, of Birmingham, in 1709, 
died at the age of 121 years. He had one 
hundred and forty-four descendants, and 
survived them all. 

Robert Parr died at Kinver in Shrop¬ 
shire, in 1757, at the age of 124 years. The 
record of this long-lived family is not only 
interesting but astonishing. The son of 
the original Thomas lived to be 109; his 
son, 132; his son, 142; and his son, the 
Robert Parr in question, as reported, 124. 

George Kirton died in 1764, at the age 
of 125. He was one of the best of English 
fox-hunters at the age of 80; and at the 
age of 100, he regularly attended the 
unkenneling of the fox, being carried in a 
chair. 

Margaret Patten, in 1739, died at the 
St. Margaret’s Workhouse, London, at 
the age of 137 years. 

Mrs. Clum, in 1772, died at Lichfield, in 
Staffordshire, at the age of 138 years. She 


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had resided in the same house one hundred 
and three years. 

Jonathan Hartop, in 1790, died at Aid- 
borough, Yorkshire, at the age of 138 
years. This poor man had five wives, 
seven children, twenty-six grandchildren, 
seventy-four great-grandchildren, and one 
hundred and forty great-great-grandchil¬ 
dren. He ate very sparingly, but drank a 
great deal of milk. Up to within a few 
months of his death he read without spec¬ 
tacles and played cribbage without mis¬ 
takes. It is reported that when he was a 
young man in London, Milton borrowed 
fifty pounds of him. This was returned 
later by the poet with great difficulty. 
Hartop would not have received it, but 
Milton insisted and wrote a somewhat 
tart letter declaring that he would not 
consider it a gift, but a loan to be returned 
with interest. This letter, it is said, was 
in Hartop’s possession at the time of his 
death, thus testifying to his great age. 

The Countess of Desmond, of Ireland, 
died in 1612, at the age of 145 years. She 


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was married in the reign of King Edward 
IV. and danced with the King's brother, 
the Duke of York, at the wedding. Upon 
the fall of the House of Desmond, she was 
obliged to flee, although one hundred and 
forty years of age at the time, traveling 
from Bristol to London to solicit relief 
from the English court, she having been 
reduced to poverty. Lord Bacon was cred¬ 
ited with saying that this remarkable old 
lady had renewed her teeth two or three 
times. 

Thomas Parr, of Shropshire, the great- 
great-grandfather of Robert Parr, previ¬ 
ously mentioned, died in 1635, at the age 
of 152 years. The famous Dr. Harvey, 
after having performed an autopsy on his 
body, facetiously remarked that he might 
have lived longer if he had only taken care 
of himself. He was married, first, at the 
early age of 88. They had two children. 
But the young man had not yet sown all 
his wild oats; for at the age of 102, while 
his first wife was still living, he fell in love 
with another woman and was obliged to 
do penance for his youthful indiscretions. 


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Soon after the death of his first wife he 
married a widow. Just previous to his 
death he was taken to London by Thomas, 
Earl of Arundel. He was presented to the 
King, and was maintained as a domestic 
in the family of the earl. For one, how¬ 
ever, who had always lived on plain, hard 
country fare, the change to high living 
and excessive drinking was not good for 
the sesquicentenarian, in consequence of 
which he filled an untimely grave at the 
age, as previously stated, of 152 years. Dr. 
Harvey, in his autopsy, found him to be in 
the most perfect state of health except for 
the layers of adipose tissue acquired by 
living the pace that kills. And so this Parr 
must always stand as a monument to the 
dangers of fast life. 

Thomas Damme, another old-timer, died 
in 1648, at the age of 154 years. 

Henry Jenkins of Ellerton-on-Swale, in 
Yorkshire, died in 1670, at the age of 159 
years. A few years before his death he 
appeared as a witness in a case and had 
an oath administed to him, all of which is 


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proved by an entry in the King’s “Remem¬ 
brance Office in the Exchequer.” 

John Rovin and His Wife, Hungarian 
peasants, form one of the most interesting 
chapters in the history of longevity. They 
both died in the same year (1741), he at 
the age of 172 years and she at the age of 
164. They had been married one hun¬ 
dred and forty-nine years. Think of it! 
Talk of a life-long companionship. Their 
youngest child, at the time of their death, 
was 116 years of age. 

Peter Torton, also a Hungarian peasant, 
died in 1724, at the very ripe age of 185 
years. 

Now for the climax. For this, however, 
Mr. Easton, the gentleman who gath¬ 
ered the previous data, would not vouch, 
although he mentioned those who would. 

Numas de Cugna, a native of Bengal, and 
a friend of the great historian, Maffeus, 
died in 1566 at the age of 370 years. He 
was described by the historian as “a kind 
of living chronicle.” 


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Noted Men Who Produce Their 
Greatest Works After Pass¬ 
ing Fiftieth Year 

“The generation which has seen an aged 
Gladstone guide an empire; a Von Moltke, 
at the three-score limit, beat down France; 
and a Bismarck, at more than three-score, 
readjust the powers of Europe, has natu¬ 
rally enough,” says Prof. Nathaniel S. 
Shaler of Harvard University, “given up 
the notion that a seat by the chimneyside 
is the only place for the elders.” 

Immanuel Kant's “Critique of Pure 
Reason” appeared after he had reached 
57; a work of such vast comprehensive¬ 
ness that the world has produced but a 
handful of men since his day who could 
fully appreciate or praise him. His “Con¬ 
test of the Faculties” appeared when he 
had passed 70. 

Darwin’s “Origin of Species,” written 
at the age of 50, sounded the farthest 
depth of biological knowledge, and created 


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such a whirlwind of controversy as no 
other book has done. “The Descent of 
Man,” written at the age of 62, had an 
effect almost as widespread and profound. 

Herbert Spencer had merely made a 
rough outline or programme of his “Syn¬ 
thetic Philosophy” when he was 40; “Prin¬ 
ciples of Psychology” was written when 
he was 52; “Principles of Sociology” when 
he was 56, and one of the greatest of his 
ethics series, “Justice,” came at the age 
of 71. 

Richard Wagner did not reach the 
zenith of his powers until he was 50. The 
entire “Niebelungen Ring” was produced 
after he was 60. “Parsifal” was written 
at 64. 

Haydn composed “The Creation” at 67 
years of age and “The Seasons” some 
years later. 

Humboldt postponed the crowning work 
of his life until he reached his 76th year, 
finishing it with high honor and credit. 

Goethe, after reaching 65, laid out for 
himself a completely new field of literary 
activities. At 80 years of age he finished 


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“Faust,” the second part of which is con¬ 
sidered the most important part of his life 
work. 

Lord Kelvin’s works upon navigation, 
matter, physics and geology, executed 
after he had passed 60 years, are among 
his strongest and best productions. 

Faraday’s discoveries of the effect of 
magnetism upon the polarization of light 
and diamagnetism were between the ages 
of 50 and 60, and many important discov¬ 
eries continued until late in life. 

John Fiske did all of his historical work 
after he reached 40, and the most impor¬ 
tant of his productions, both historical and 
philosophical, were after he passed 60. 

Christopher Columbus was 56 years old 
when he discovered America. 


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He Practices What He Preaches 

The Los Angeles Examiner recently 
contained the following complimentary 
notice of our Mr. Warman: 

Climbs Mount Wilson, Up and Back, 
Without Resting or Eating. 

Edward B. Warman, athlete, writer and 
dietetic expert, as well as Physical Direc¬ 
tor of the Hundred-Year Club, celebrated 
being sixty-three years young by climbing 
to the top of Mt. Wilson and then jogging 
down to foot of trail without food or rest 
from start to finish. 

Mr. Warman has previously ascended 
Mt. Wilson, together with his Hundred- 
Year Club, and remained over night on the 
summit, but his round trip yesterday, 
without nourishment or rest, was by way 
of proving to himself that at sixty-three 
he is as fit as he ever was, and that his 
rules of life: of eating, drinking, bathing, 
breathing, etc., by which he keeps hale and 
hearty, are good ones. 


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Accompanied by Mrs. Warman, the 
veteran went to Sierra Madre early yes¬ 
terday morning, and the pair began the 
ascent of the Mt. Wilson trail without 
partaking of breakfast; it being one of 
Mr. Warman’s theories that the healthy 
body, in case of an emergency, draws upon 
itself from the stored-up energy for its 
motive power. 

They arrived at the Half-Way House in 
one hour and thirty minutes. Mrs. War- 
man remained there while her vigorous 
spouse continued nimbly up the steeper 
half to the summit—time two hours—re¬ 
turning soon as he registered at the Mt. 
Wilson Hotel and had refreshed himself 
with a cup of snow-water. 

At the Half-Way House (which he 
reached by a dog-trot in fifty-five min¬ 
utes) he was rejoined by Mrs. Warman, 
and, after drinking two glasses of lem¬ 
onade, together they jogged to the foot of 
the trail in fifty-five more minutes, thus 
making the descent from summit to base 
in one hour and fifty minutes. 


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After his arduous birthday climb, which 
is a little over sixteen miles, and an alti¬ 
tude of 5,886 feet, Mr. Warman declared 
he felt as fresh and strong as ever, and, if 
he were not so busy writing books and 
performing other work to the extent of 
about seventeen hours daily, he should like 
to do the Mt. Wilson climb as a regular 
thing. 


“Work a little, sing a little, 
Whistle and be gay; 

Read a little, play a little, 
Busy every day. 

Talk a little, laugh a little, 
Don’t forget to pray; 

Be a bit of merry sunshine 
All the blessed way.” 



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How to Keep Well 

By Elbert Hubbard. 

1. Ninety-nine people out of a hundred 
who go to a physician have no organic dis¬ 
ease, but are merely suffering from some 
symptom of their own indiscretion. 

2. Individuals who have diseases, nine 
times out of ten, are suffering from the 
accumulated evil effects of medication. 

3. Hence we get the proposition: Most 
diseases are the result of medication 
which has been prescribed to relieve and 
remove a beneficent warning symptom on 
the part of Nature. 

4. Most of the work of doctors in the 
past has been to treat symptoms, the dif¬ 
ference between a disease and a symptom 
being something the average man does 
not even yet know. 

The people you see waiting in the lobbies 
of doctors’ offices are, in a vast majority 
of cases, suffering through poisoning 
caused by an excess of food. Coupled with 


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this go the bad results of imperfect 
breathing, improper use of stimulants, 
lack of exercise, irregular sleep, or hold¬ 
ing the thought of fear, jealousy and hate. 
All of these things, or any one of them, 
will, in very many persons, cause fever, 
chills, congestion, cold feet and faulty 
elimination. 

Nature is always and forever trying 
hard to keep people well, and most so- 
called “disease” — which word means 
merely the lack of ease—is self-limiting, 
and tends to cure itself. If you have no 
appetite, do not eat. If you have appetite, 
do not eat too much. Be moderate in the 
use of everything, except fresh air and 
sunshine. 


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